Leonov 8: Rendezvous

This piece concludes our Leonov series for now, though we’ve been kicking around a couple more ideas for the model… since we sunk all that time into it! Especially Drell-7 (drell-7.deviantart.com/) who did the hands-on modeling. In this images the Leonov finally rendezvous with Discovery, tumbling about its axis in a parking orbit and covered with fine sulfur dust spewed out from Io’s plentiful volcanoes and geysers.

I think Tom and I have only one regret with this series, and that’s that we didn’t do it earlier. It would have been marvelous to send a set of prints to Clarke and to have heard his feedback on the design. He who hesitates is lost.

Art by Drell-7 (drell-7.deviantart.com/), design by Rob Caswell and Tom Peters. Inspiration and commitment by Sir Arthur C. Clarke.